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Updated January 2010 Hey
everybody,
I feel like I’m entering the
confessional. I should probably be saying something along the lines of:
“Forgive me, readers, for I have
sinned. It’s been…*gulp*… 2 years and five months since I last updated my
website.”
Um…yeah. About that. Lemme
explain.
In June 2007 I was riding high. My
very first published story **ever** had been released by Amber Quill Press,
to generally favorable reviews. My spouse had back surgery and I stayed
home with him for 6 weeks, intending to get the sequel out and maybe get
started on some others. I committed to AQP for more stories (until recently,
featured on my Coming Soon page,) and settled down to enjoy the ride.
Then my spouse – my life partner, my
best friend – got sick.
He just wasn’t bouncing back from
the surgery like we hoped. He felt tired & weak all the time, healed slowly,
started dropping weight, and began suffering debilitating migraines up to 4
or 5 times a week. We went to doctors, then specialists, ruled out cancer
and meningitis, and then began the absolutely horrid routine of going to see
health specialists who don’t really know what’s wrong with you, so start
prescribing stuff to see what helps. Some meds made him a little better,
some meds made him a lot worse, and nothing touched the migraines, which
were of the “I’d almost rather be dead than suffer through this” variety.
This state of affairs went on for,
no kidding, eighteen months. By late 2008 he was forty pounds
underweight, literally skin and bones, and not just housebound but
bedridden. I was beside myself.
Some people are able to use their
writing as an escape, as a sort of therapy for the stress in their lives.
Unfortunately, my well of creativity is tied in to my mental well-being. And
between worrying if I was going to come home one day and find myself a
widow, and staying on top of a truly insane work schedule (from whence came
the health insurance), I couldn’t write a word for almost two years.
Then a miracle happened. In a last
ditch effort, we abandoned our normal primary care physician and found a
holistic naturopath (a real medical doctor, yes, but one less interested in
throwing drugs at us to treat symptoms and more interested in finding the
actual cause of the health problems). After two visits, a series of really
thorough blood tests, and about three hours of interviewing my spouse, she
diagnosed that his migraines were caused by severe food allergies, which in
turn were exacerbated by lead poisoning (he had scraped and painted our old
turn-of-the century lead-paint-ridden house before we moved down to AZ). She
figured his body had been handling the detox on its own until the surgery,
then his immune system was too vulnerable and couldn’t handle the double job
of detoxing him AND healing his back.
We changed his diet – no more dairy,
sugar, or wheat flour. He began a series of chelation treatments to remove
the lead from his blood and tissues. After about six months of this, he
hasn’t had one migraine, is slowly but surely finding his energy and his
joie de vivre, and has regained twenty pounds.
I got my soul mate back, and with it
my will to write.
So, yeah. I’m working on Loving
Wolf, the sequel to Just Friends. And since I’m no longer
constrained to a contest-entry word-count, you can expect all the stuff I
wanted to get into in Just Friends to show up in Loving Wolf.
For Eli and Grant, falling in love
was just the beginning.
2008 sucked like a Hoover Wind
Tunnel vacuum. 2009 sucked much less. 2010, I hope, will be a gentle
exhalation, preferably through pursed lips and accompanied by a pleasing
sound.
Yeah, I’m whistling while I
work. And provided AQP still wants my stuff, I hope that in the
not-too-distant future you, too, will be whistling while you read the
further adventures of Grant & Eli.
Thanks for sticking with me,
readers. You guys are the best.
Anne
January 8, 2010
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